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Frazer, Wittgenstein and the savage mind.(Culture)
SER JAMES FRAZER'S The Golden Bough, a monumental work on the history of magic and religion, first appeared in two volumes in 1890 and, finally, in twelve volumes in 1915. It was instantly acclaimed as a classic and had a huge influence throughout the Western world. Today it can still be found in most large academic and public libraries and it is still regularly consulted by scholars from a remarkably wide range of disciplines. Many is the ignorant postgraduate student who has requested The Golden Bough on inter-library loan and then found, to his or her dismay, that a wheelbarrow is needed to get it home.
Frazer's work had a significant influence on a group of ...
- Golden Bough
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature M. C. HOWATSON and IAN CHILVERS January 1, 1996 700+ words
Golden Bough . In Virgil's Aeneid...and pluck a ‘golden bough’ for Proserpine...starting-point Sir James Frazer developed his great work...beliefs and institutions, the Golden Bough (1890–1915...
- GOLDEN BOUGH PERFORMS IN SUNNYVALE SEPT. 12
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 25, 2009 700+ words
...with world premiere by the Celtic trio Golden Bough on Saturday, September 12, 8 p.m...Single ticket sales begin August 3. Golden Bough returns with a world premiere of the...concerts and recordings to their credit, Golden Bough is well-known to Bay Area Celtic and...
- Golden Bough, Songs of the Irish Immigrants.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording...
- Magazine article from: Sing Out! DesRosiers, Mary March 22, 2005 700+ words
GOLDEN BOUGH, Songs of the Irish Immigrants, (ARC Music 1900). Paul Espinoza, Margie Butler and Kathy Sierra of Golden Bough have assembled a lovely selection of contemporary and traditional songs about Irish immigration to America. Standouts...
- Golden Bough.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Gifts & Decorative Accessories March 1, 2001 700+ words
...beginnings dating back to the mid-1970s as a small store selling herbs. teas, and spices. Enchanted Meadow. a division of Golden Bough Herb Co., has a long commitment to the use of natural, holistic ingredients. So when the company expanded into manufacturing...
- Enchanted Meadow Delights the Senses with Botanically Fragranced Gifts.(Golden...
- Magazine article from: Gifts & Decorative Accessories May 1, 2001 700+ words
Nearly 30 years ago, Golden Bough Herb Co. began as a small retail venture selling herbs, teas, and spices. Today, those natural origins have blossomed into...
- Myth, Rhetoric, and the Voice of Authority: A Critique of Frazer, Eliot, Frye,...
- Magazine article from: The Southern Review Segal, Robert A. January 1, 1993 700+ words
...from cherishing The Golden Bough as literature rather...alternating genres that Frazer purportedly employs...Eliot's adoption of Frazer's tactics, not Frazer's ideas. He tellingly...profusion of voices in The Golden Bough with the profusion...
- Freud, Frazer, and Lawrence's palimpsestic novella: dreams and the heaviness of...
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel Balbert, Peter June 22, 2006 700+ words
...trees..."--Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough "There wants a man about...is no surprise that he held Frazer's The Golden Bough in high esteem, given that...impressive scholarship by Frazer that involved him in a complex...
- Frazer, James George
- Dictionary definition from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography January 1, 2008 700+ words
...subjects and later, after Frazer had read E. B. Tylor...As early as 1885 Frazer read to the Anthropological...first edition of The Golden Bough . This title was taken...the abridgment of The Golden Bough published in 1922. Both died on 7 May 1941. Frazer made no original ...
